Digging on My Poor Sense of Arts

I have heaps of free time lately and decide to learn so many variety things. I choose to learn things which requires less movement as much as possible because I'm the lazy ass. On December I decided to learn Hangeul, Korean lettering, since I already am able to speak little broken Korean. Turns out I gave up in less than 3 days because DA HECK THEY ARE SO COMPLICATED! My brain can't process that much rules on writing. I used to learn Japanese in High School and you know what? Japanese are waaaaaayy way easier than Korean. I regret that I didn't take my Japanese lesson really seriously back then. Imagine, I could be more multilingual now, besides Japan is so much cooler now rather than when I was in High School. 

Earlier this year, I decided to learn Spanish because Hispanics are sexy. Hahaha. Nope, because it is easier than the others. I was contemplating about learning some European languages like Dutch, Germany, Swedish, Polish, Italian or learning Spanish. I finally chose Spanish just because I feel like I'm familiar with it. I used to watch Dora The Explorer with my lil brother at home and Dora speaks a lil bit Spanish. Yeah, go ahead guys. Judge me.

I learn Spanish through an app called Duolingo. You can find it on PlayStore and they are fun and free! You can learn lots of languages there (you can see it by yourself. I'm not gonna list it for you, you lazy cheese!). This app is sooooo freaking good. It teaches you from the very basic level such as vocabulary. It only takes 5 minutes a day, every freakin' day. The thing is Duolingo is a little bit passive-aggressive just like an annoying boyfriend. They'll remind you both on your email and directly on to your phone. If you didn't take your lesson for more than a week (just like me), they will give you reminder like a needy girlfriend and stop emailing you. I find it funny. But I still use it up until now because it is fun, even I'm still in a vocabulary level because I'm such a bad and moody student. It works flawlessly!

Besides learning new language I also now learn to do hand lettering. I don't really remember why I want to do this at the first place but there was one night I was writing my diary (I still write a diary. Regularly. Judge me again) then the next minute I was on YouTube searching for: "How To Do Hand Lettering for Beginner". Then I found it on my diary.

My very first attempt.

The next day I went to Senayan City to do some work out (fast walking, jogging from one outlet to another, going round and round. I love this kind of exercise). Hours later I came back home with one sketch book, and three different kind of things like pen but not really a pen. Soon I realized I just spend too much for only 4 items. I can buy one large pan of pizza and the side dishes with that much amount of money. Isn't it a super basic fool thing girls do? But other girls spend it for make up, mine just for some basic hand lettering beginner starter pack. Lyf.

Here is my large Idaho Cheesy Pizza with MacNCheese

I purchased one sketch book by Canson. It's quite nice I think. I don't really know about sketch book quality or something, but this is enough. It's A5 in size and not really that big but a little bit pricey than I thought. I'm not sure if I want to purchase it back because it's a little bit too thin. If you can see I also use Sharpie and it doesn't go so well with the paper. It leaves traces to some pages under the page that I currently work with. Also I bought one Gray Color Sharpie because the color is sooo cute but a little bit too thick. Later I will try to buy the thinner pointer. I also bought one Zebra milli pen 0.1 mm and works like an art. The last thing I bought is the super duper expensive brushing pen by Pigma and let me tell you this, it sucks! The tip of the pen is not that flexible and it is super hard to learn how to do stroking. I definitely am not going to repurchased it sometime in the future because it seriously doesn't worth the money. I just bought them less than a week and look what happened:

It is broken already!! Are you kidding me?!

Anyway I have so much fun exploring my self doing some artsy sheits stuffs and the rest of this blog is going to be me bragging about my hand lettering ability. It looks awkward at the first time, but I can tell that I'm slowly improving day by day. The more I do practices the better the outcomes. It just like learn how to kiss someone ride a bicycle for the first time. You can find your balance the more you try it.

I was shaking so much.

Oh, I usually look for some examples on Google, Pinterest or Tumblr then I tried to copy it. Sometimes I changed the words or the letters which one that I feel for more comfortable.

I use my milli pen on this. It has more control.

Don't really like it but it looks fine.

using brushing pen

Yap. I know. It's gramaticaly wrong.

I don't realize I screw up the grammar until I'm taking the picture. Kraay

My brushing pen is broken while making the S letter on the Shine

And we keep rolling with the broken pen.

Then I give up and using the mili pen again. btw it took so much time to fill in each letter on this one.

I was about to be sooooo proud of this one until I miss-spelled the empathy. Since we can't redo it, I just keep along. It is using the combination of broken pen brush and milli pen.

I rarely use the Sharpie because it leaves traces on the following pages but today I decide to just rock it. AND IT ROCKS!
I love Sharpie!

Back to the milli pen

I'm bad with placing and composition.

I love the quote but I hate the drawing. Why am I so bad at drawing :( It's clearly shown how tired I'm because it's the 8th drawing of the day.

Well, how do you guys think about my doodling? I only learn the basic strokes on YouTube but I don't think I'm keeping up with that stroke. I don't know why maybe the shitty pen or my blessed hand is really can't do art. But for people who are terrible at art, I think I'm doing fine.

Seriously, it is somehow an attempt for me to find an art blood in me. I'm so bad at drawing, I'm not flexible so can't dance, I'm too clumsy to do some painting. The only form of art that I can do is only singing AND it's only me who think I can sing (and my mother, because every mother thinks their daughter always doing good).

I regularly post an update about my hand lettering project on my Tumblr so if you think you are interesting enough to see me growing some art on me, check it here.

See you at another post xoxo